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(Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush remained hospitalized on Thursday near his home in Houston after experiencing shortness of breath this week, and was in “great spirits,” his spokesman said.

Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital on Tuesday. Spokesman Jim McGrath said on Wednesday that the 41st president’s prognosis was positive and that he remained hospitalized as a precaution.

“President Bush had another terrific day and is in great spirits,” McGrath said on Thursday in an emailed statement.

Bush’s wife, Barbara, as well as son Neil and daughter-in-law Maria Bush visited the former president, McGrath said.

“He asked that his sincere wishes for a very Merry Christmas be extended to one and all,” McGrath said, adding that Bush will remain at the hospital Thursday evening.

The latest health scare comes two years after Bush, who was president from 1989 to 1993, was admitted to the same hospital for treatment of bronchitis and related ailments.

Bush spent seven weeks recuperating and became so ill he was believed at one point to be near death.

The former Republican president suffers from Parkinson’s disease and cannot use his legs. But he celebrated his 90th birthday on June 12 by skydiving in Kennebunkport, Maine, with the Army’s Golden Knight parachute team.

His eldest son, former President George W. Bush, this year published a best-selling book about his father, titled “41 – A Portrait of My Father.”

(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Seattle and Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Dan Grebler and Eric Walsh)

We’ve been expecting a new batch of Intel-powered chromebooks since May, and the first one is here: meet the Acer C720, the first to pack a full-on Core i3 processor in addition to up to 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. Pretty muscular for a browser-based device.

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The partnership will include the Beddit Sleep Monitor, a strip that’s been designed to be placed on the mattress and under the sheets of a customer’s bed. Misfit combines the device with its app made for the iPhone and iPad. It states:

Now you can get an accurate picture of your nightly sleep patterns without having to wear anything. Using the world’s thinnest sleep sensor, the Misft Beddit Sleep System seamlessly measures your sleep cycles and quality using heart rate, respiration, movement, snoring, and sound.

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What do you think of this rather different connected technology product and partnership?

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